Publications

Yesilaltay , S., Hacquin, A. & Mercier, H. (2020). Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation. New Media & Society, . doi:10.1177/1461444820969893

Yesilaltay , S., Majima, Y. & Mercier, H. (2020 ). It's my idea! Reputation management and idea appropriation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(3), 235-243. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.03.004

Yesilaltay , S., Claidière, N. & Mercier, H. (2020). It Happened to a Friend of a Friend: Inaccurate Source Reporting In Rumor Diffusion. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, E49. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.53

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Framing messages for vaccination supporters. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, 26(4). doi:10.1037/xap0000271

Yesilaltay , S. & Mercier, H. (2020). Relevance Is Socially Rewarded, But Not at the Price of Accuracy. Evolutionary Psychology, 18(1), 1–7. doi:10.1177/1474704920912640

Wyart, V. (2018). Leveraging decision consistency to decompose suboptimality in terms of its ultimate predictability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e248. doi:10.1017/S0140525X18001504

Weiss, A., Chambon, V., Drugowitsch, J. & Wyart, V. (2021). Interacting with volatile environments stabilizes hidden-state inference and its brain signatures. Nature Communications, 12, 2228. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22396-6

V Kuchibhotla, K. , Hindmarsh Sten, T., C. Papadoyannis, E. , Elnozahy, S. , Fogelson, K. , Chillale, R. , Boubenec, Y., C. Holland, P. , Ostojic, S. & C. Froemke, R. (2020). Author Correction: Dissociating task acquisition from expression during learning reveals latent knowledge. Nat Commun, 11(3176). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17023-9

V Kuchibhotla, K. , Hindmarsh Sten, T., C. Papadoyannis, E. , Elnozahy, S. , Fogelson, K. , Chillale, R. , Boubenec, Y., C. Holland, P. , Ostojic, S. & C. Froemke, R. (2019). Dissociating task acquisition from expression during learning reveals latent knowledge. Nature Communications, 10, 2151. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10089-0

Trouche, E., Prado, J. , Léone, J. , Epinat-Duclos, J. & Mercier, H. (2020). The neural bases of argumentative reasoning. Brain and Language, 208, 104827. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104827

Schweitzer, R. , Watson, T. , Balsdon, T. & Rolfs, M. (2018). From retinal to world-centered perception of intra-saccadic motion streaks: Evidence for high-fidelity eye position information during saccades. , 18(10), 1285

Schuessler, F. , Dubreuil, A., Mastrogiuseppe, F., Ostojic, S. & Barak, O. (2020). Dynamics of random recurrent networks with correlated low-rank structure. Phys. Rev. Research, 2(1), 013111. doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013111

Safra, L., Baumard, N., Wyart, V. & Chevallier, C. (2020). Social motivation is associated with increased weight granted to cooperation-related impressions in face evaluation tasks. PLoS ONE, 15(4), e0230011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230011

Palminteri, S., Wyart, V. & Koechlin, E. (2017). The Importance of Falsification in Computational Cognitive Modeling. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(6), 425-433. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.03.011

Oswald, A. & Ostojic, S. (2020). Curating more diverse scientific conferences. Nat Rev Neurosci, 21, 589-590. doi:10.1038/s41583-020-0373-4

Morin, O., Jacquet, P., Vaesen, K. & Acerbi , A. (2021). Social information use and social information waste. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 376, 20200052. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0052

Mercier, H., Hacquin, A. & Claidière, N. (2021). Being Easy to Communicate Might Make Verdicts Based on Confessions More Legitimate. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 21(3-4), 203-225. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340104

Mercier, H. & Sperber, D. (2020). Bounded reason in a social world. In Ricardo Viale (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Mercier, H. (2021). Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust And What We Believe.

Mercier, H., Dockendorff, M. , Majima, Y. , Hacquin, A. & Schwartzberg, M. (2020). Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting. Thinking & Reasoning , 27(3). doi:10.1080/13546783.2020.1857306

Mercier, H. & Boyer, P. (2021). Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(3), 259-267. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.004

Mercier, H. (2021). How Good Are We At Evaluating Communicated Information? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 89, 257-272. doi:10.1017/S1358246121000096

Mercier, H. (2020). The Cultural Evolution of Oaths, Ordeals, and Lie Detectors. The Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(3-4), 159-187. doi:10.1163/15685373-12340080

Mercier, H. (2020). Divination as polling: Comment on Boyer’s Why divination? Evolved psychology and strategic interaction in the production of truth. Current Anthropology, .

Mastrogiuseppe, F. & Ostojic, S. (2019). A geometrical description of global dynamics in trained feedback networks. Neural Computation, 31(6), 1139-1182. doi:10.1162/neco_a_01187

Mastrogiuseppe, F. & Ostojic, S. (2018). Linking connectivity, dynamics and computations in recurrent neural networks. Neuron, 99(3), 609-623. doi:DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.07.003

Marie, A. , Yesilaltay , S. & Strickland, B. (2020). The cognitive foundations of misinformation on science - What we know and what scientists can do about it. EMBO Rep , 21(4), e50205. doi:10.15252/embr.202050205

Maravall, M., Ostojic, S., Pressnitzer, D. & Chait, M. (2018). More than the Sum of its Parts: Perception and Neuronal Underpinnings of Sequence Processing. Neuroscience, in press. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.07.043

Mahr, J. , Mascaro, O., Mercier, H. & Csibra, G. (2021). The effect of disagreement on children’s source memory performance. Plos One, 16(4), e0249958. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0249958

Lourenço, J. , De Stasi, A., Deleuze, C. , Bigot, M. , Pazienti, A. , Aguirre, A. , Giugliano, M., Ostojic, S. & Bacci, A. (2020). Modulation of Coordinated Activity across Cortical Layers by Plasticity of Inhibitory Synapses. Cell reports, 30(3), 630-641.e5. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2019.12.052